President Donald Trump announced his "Great Healthcare Plan" to little fanfare on Capitol Hill last week. The question now is how willing and able congressional Republicans will be to actually pass any of it into law after stumbling for years over politically toxic plans to undo Obamacare. The prognosis is not encouraging for the White House. Key parts of the light-on-details proposal likely won't meet the strict Senate rules for party-line legislation that could skirt a Democratic filibuster. Similar cost-reduction proposals from Republicans ran into problems on that count in last year's tax-cuts-focused megabill. White House officials argue the new health care plan features initiatives that should garner bipartisan support, but Democrats are already balking. They're in no mood to help Republicans out after Trump's megabill slashed Medicaid funding, and they're still fighting to revive the expired Obamacare subsidies that the Trump plan rejects.
In a social media landscape shaped by hashtags, algorithms, and viral posts, nurse leaders must decide: Will they let the narrative spiral, or can they adapt and join the conversation?
...
